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This data-driven live coding performance explores natural soundscape recordings from the Alice Holt Forest, UK, captured continuously over the course of a year via a custom-built audio streamer and uploaded to the Freesound database. The central enquiry is whether patterns in forest soundscapes can be linked to climate change, using acoustic ecology and live coding to highlight their interconnection. Are species’ sounds diminishing? Do environmental noises dominate? Are there other acoustic markers tied to climate shifts? The performance uses MIRLCa, a self-developed SuperCollider extension that combines AI and music information retrieval (MIR) techniques to retrieve and manipulate sounds from Freesound in real time. This performance is part of the broader project, “Sensing the Forest: Let the Forest Speak using the Internet of Things, Acoustic Ecology, and Creative AI,” (sensingtheforest.github.io) funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/X011585/1, AH/X011585/2).